PSY321H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sweet Potato, Soil Fertility, Human Brain
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Lecture 2: culture as a "living thing": cultural stability & Chapter 2: culture & human nature: what is culture? (1) info acquired from other members of a species via social learning. Social learning --> diff habits: this kind of beh certainly qualifies as an instance of culture, youtube, stone-handling in 4 troops of japanese monkeys by age. Jean-baptise l: compared stone-handling in diff monkeys known to engage in beh, d. Findings from 4 diff troops: divided into age groups, defined 2 kinds of stone handling. Is culture unique to humans: notable exception to think that tool use is unique to humans. Sophisticated beh transmitted through social learning: tool use had long been thought of as a hallmark of human culture. Some troops use twigs to fish for terminates other don"t. See ex of other animal species that engage in social learning of diff habits: definition used in text, opens up avenues to understand what where the origins of our culture.
